musical memory
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Walking Music
Music is a scent you catch walking down the street corn over coals: a BBQ a cottage a dock on a lake jumping into dark water long past summer memories triggered from smoke in the air. Continue reading
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On The Beastie Boys And The Hip Hop Enculturation Of 1980s Suburbia
With the news last week that Beastie Boy member Adam Yauch (aka MCA) had died, I thought about the seismic impact hip hop had when it first burst the bubble of kids living in suburbia all over North America and beyond during the 1980s. As the producer Rick Rubin noted in a recent interview, “The Continue reading
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On The (In)significance Of Musical Experience
Sometimes when I’m in the middle of listening to a podcast interview with a writer talking about information theory, or art history and design aesthetics, or the philosophy of work, or the politics of technology, I find myself thinking about the purpose and relative (in)significance of music. Musicologists have long studied the formal properties of Continue reading
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Memory Palaces and Music
“A memory consists in the awareness, first, of the diminished intensity of an impression, second, of its increased ease, and third, of the connections it entertains with other impressions” – Friedrich A. Kittler, Gramophone, Film, Typewriter, p.31. In the New York Times Magazine this past weekend there was a fascinating article by Joshua Foer on “memory athletes” Continue reading
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